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March 13, 2014

How to Make Rice in the Slow Cooker (CrockPot)

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I’ve been blogging about slow cooker stuff for over 5 years now.  Sometimes I forget what I’ve told you already and sometimes I think that you know stuff that you don’t.  Like that you can cook rice in the slow cooker.  I bet there are some of you out there that didn’t know you could do that (am I right?!?).
How to Make Rice in the Slow Cooker (CrockPot) #lifehack #crockpot #slowcooker

I mostly cook brown rice because that’s what my family eats but you can also cook white rice.  Although I feel that the brown rice holds up better in the slow cooker than white rice.  I haven’t really tried any of the fancy other kids of rice but I’m sure those would work too.  The cool thing about it is that it’s super easy.  And you only need to remember a couple things to have success.

How to Make Rice in your CrockPot #rice #crockpot #lifehack #slowcooker

So this is how you make rice in the slow cooker…
You take
1 cup of brown rice (or white rice)
1 1/2 cups or boiling water
1 tsp of salt (optional)
and you put it in your slow cooker that has been sprayed with non stick cooking spray.  Then you turn it on high* and cover.  It should be done in about 2-3 hours.  Remember that each slow cooker cooks differently!  White rice is going to cook faster and might even be done within 90 minutes. Brown rice may take up to 3 or 4 hours.
*Most recipes can successfully be cooked on high or low, but with this one I’d stick with high if I were you.  The rice seems to get too mushy if cooked over several hours on low.

I also like using my slow cooker to cook pearl barley.  Barley cooks similar to brown rice as far as time goes.  In addition, you can cook quinoa in the slow cooker!  It will take a lot less time to cook though…probably closer to 90 minutes on high.  

How to Make brown or white rice in the CrockPot #slowcooker #rice #lifehack

If you like rice…you should try my Brown Rice Mushroom Risotto…it’s creamy and delicious and best yet, a hands off recipe.

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3 Comments Filed Under: All Recipes, Meatless, Rice, Side Dish, Slow Cooker Tagged With: Tips, All Posts, 2-4 hours, 4 stars, kitchen tip tuesday

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  1. James Goacher says

    June 25, 2022 at 4:58 am

    I love you comment about ‘Fancy’ Rice. I have not had Rice Pudding since a child so my Rice is generally Long Grain or Basmati which seems easier to get for me nowadays. I also love my Slow Cooker, not in the Biblical sense but because it is forgiving and I like the idea of being able to check now and then if something is cooked, so I am going to try the Slow Cooker method and give my overworked Rice Cooker a reast.

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  2. Giggles says

    June 22, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    Our stove died yesterday and I just knew you’d have a method for cooking rice in a slow cooker that I could trust to turn out. I doubled the recipe for our family and it turned out perfectly. Thanks!

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    • Karen says

      June 23, 2016 at 1:41 pm

      Oh my this makes me feel so good! Glad I could help 🙂

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